Three more buildings were proposed for Romeoville's Windham Lakes Business Park at a recent workshop session. The new proposals were all for office/warehouse/distribution centers--one for Cintas Corporation, another for Chapco Adhesives and a third large building due to be subdivided for four or five different users. Although the three proposals were similar, the business park at Weber Road and Interstate Highway 355 is home to a wide variety of businesses, Community Development Director Greg Anderson said.

The American Can Co. plant in Maywood covered 18 acres, employed thousands of people in its heyday and went down in history--the history of the obscure--as the birthplace in 1935 of the beer can. "Practically everybody in town was working at the can company because that's where the best-paying jobs were," said Veona Vaughn, a Maywood resident who worked for 27 years at American Can. "There was a Sears, a Montgomery Ward and two movie theaters...

The Field Museum is known for its dinosaurs, mummies and artifacts. Now it can add restrooms to that list. The large, ground-floor restrooms with clouds painted on the ceiling have been named one of the 10 best restroom facilities in America. Online voters now get to pick the top toilet in this year's annual America's Best Restroom contest (bestrestroom/com) sponsored by Cintas Corp., which designs and manufactures such items as employee uniforms and restroom supplies. Voting ends Sept.

Wilmette-based Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate has announced it will host a community Shred Event from 9 a.m. to noon April 18 at Sunset Corners Shopping Center in Lake Forest. The event, which will be sponsored by the Lake Forest Koenig & Strey GMAC offices and Cintas document management services, will provide area residents with free document shredding and recycling services. "Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate places a high importance on protecting the privacy of our home buyers and sellers, which is why we take great care to ensure all sensitive documents are destroyed according to industry standards," said Bob Bush, branch executive of Koenig & Strey GMAC's Lake Forest West office.

Romeoville trustees Wednesday night approved plans for new areas in two subdivisions, the Weslake on Taylor Road and a resubdivision in the Cambridge at Carillon development. A vote on three planned businesses for the Windhams Lake Business Park was delayed because the documentation was late in reaching village officials, Village Manager James Smithberg said. Village officials said last week that they were pleased at the balance between residential and business development in Romeoville.